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God glorified in the work of redemption, by the greatness of man's dependence upon…God glorified in the work of redemption, by the greatness of man's dependance upon…
God glorified in the work of redemption, by the greatness of man's dependence upon him, in the whole of it. A sermon preached on the public lecture in Boston, July 8. 1731. : And published at the desire of several, ministers and others, in Boston, who heard it. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. ; [Two lines from Judges]God glorified in the work of redemption, by the greatness of man's dependance upon him, in the whole of it. A sermon preached on the publick lecture in Boston, July 8. 1731. : And published at the desire of several, ministers and others, in Boston, who heard it. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the Church of Christ in Northampton. ; [Two lines from Judges]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for D. Henchman, 1731
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GOD Glorified in Man's Dependence.GOD Glorified in Man's Dependance.
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Our Blessings are what we have by Purchase; and the Purchase is made of God, the Blessings are purchased of him, and God gives the Purchaser; and not only so but God is the Purchaser. Yea God is both the Purchaser & the Price; for Christ, who is God purchased these Blessings for us, by offering up himself as the Price of our Salvation. He purchased eternal Life by the Sacrifice of himself. Heb. 7.27. He offered up himself. And 9.26. He hath appeared to take away Sin by the Sacrifice of himself. Indeed it was the human Nature that was offered; but it was the same Person with the divine, and therefore was an infinite Price: it was looked upon as if God had been offered in Sacrifice.
Our Blessings are what we have by Purchase; and the Purchase is made of God, the Blessings are purchased of him, and God gives the Purchaser; and not only so but God is the Purchaser. Yea God is both the Purchaser & the Price; for Christ, who is God purchased these Blessings for us, by offering up himself as the Price of our Salvation. He purchased eternal Life by the Sacrifice of himself. Heb. 7.27. He offered up himself. And 9.26. He hath appeared to take away Sin by the Sacrifice of himself. Indeed it was the human Nature that was offer'd; but it was the same Person with the divine, and therefore was an infinite Price: it was looked upon as if God had been offered in Sacrifice.
As we thus have our Good through God, we have a Dependence on God in a Respect that Man in his first Estate had not. Man was to have eternal Life then through his own Righteousness; so that he had partly a Dependence upon what was in himself; for we have a Dependence upon that through which we have our Good, as well as that from which we have it: and though Man's Righteousness that he then depended on was indeed from God, yet it was his own, it was inherent in himself; so that his Dependence was not so immediately on God. But now the Righteousness that we are Dependent on is not in our selves, but in God. We are saved through the Righteousness of Christ: he is made unto us Righteousness; and therefore is prophesied of,